Black isn’t a doctor but a music therapist (心理治疗师). Back in2019, the nursing team asked if she could reach out to a _________ who seemed to be struggling and was unwilling to _________ the staff or be part of any activities. “They told me, ‘He’s bad-_________, and we wonder if you might have a(n) _________.”

So, on a _________ afternoon, Black approached the patient’s room and _________ herself. She asked if she could _________, and offered to play some music.” If you don’t like it, you can _________ me to leave, she said.

After some gentle _________, the 70-year-old man told her a few classical composers he __________ and then turned away at the bare branches __________. But as she started to play one of his favorites, Bach, the man turned back and started to cry. Black __________ the music. “Do you want me to continue?” she asked. “Absolutely,” he said through __________. “He shared with me afterward that he had been __________ so much and had been unable to talk about anything, but the __________ showed up like a hug,” recalls Black.

Anyone who has felt that joy when a(n) __________ song comes on the radio at just the right moment or __________ along with a singer expressing heartache will __________ the emotional touch of music. Now, a growing body of scientific __________ demonstrates that music can be __________ too.

As a young man, Alex was a skilled artist, a potter with a wife and two fine sons. One night, his older son developed a _______ stomachache. Thinking it was only some common intestinal (肠的) _______, neither Alex nor his wife _______ the condition very seriously. But the boy died suddenly that night.

Knowing the death could have been _______ if he had only realized the seriousness of the situation, he always felt he was _______. To make matters worse, his wife left him a short time later, leaving him alone with his six-year-old younger son. The hurt and pain of the two situations were more than Alex could _______, and he turned to alcohol for help.

As the alcoholism progressed, Alex began to lose everything he _______ — his land, house, etc. Finally Alex died alone in a small bar. Hearing of Alex’s death, I thought, “What a totally wasted life! What a complete _______!”

As time went by, I began to _______ my earlier rough judgement. I knew Alex’s now adult son, Ernie. He is one of the kindest, most ________, most loving men I have ever known. I saw the love between Ernie and his children, ________ that kindness and caring had to come from somewhere.

One day, I ________ my courage to ask him what on earth his father had done so that he became such a special person. Ernie said ________, “As a child until I left home at 18, Alex came into my room every night, gave me a kiss and said, “love you, son.””

Tears came to my eyes as I realized what I had been a fool to ________ Alex as a failure. He had not left any material possessions behind. But he had been a kind loving father, and left behind his best ________.

Maybe it's my love of baseball that connects my aunt Helen and me. She has always kept me _________ in her experiences of playing baseball back in the 1940s. I would listen to these _________ over and over. She used to say, “Go after what you want. Don't be ashamed of failing. Real _________comes from never trying.^”

In 1943, she was one of the young women who _________ for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball league. She _________ what it would be like to win a championship for her hometown! She imagined a long narrow pointed flag _________ at the baseball field, and on it the name Helen would be there for all to _________ .

About a week later, Aunt Helen received a _________ from the leaders of the girl's baseball league in Chicago! Aunt Helen _________ it open and learned that she had been invited to the league's main tryouts!

But as the days went by, Aunt Helen became __________ about traveling to Chicago alone. What if she went all that way and __________ ? When the day of the tryouts __________ , she was too afraid to go.

Aunt Helen has spent the rest of her life wondering what would have happened __________ she had gone to those tryouts. Because of this, she never missed another __________ in her life. She learned that every dream is worth __________ ， even if you catch only a few of them.